* 1957 – Peter O ’ Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and composer

So you ’ re the composer of The Barber of Seville.

In 1935, Australian-born composer Percy Grainger, who also had a deep interest in music made before Bach, arranged Dowland ’ s Now, O now I needs must part for piano.

During World War II, though already an experienced composer, Hartmann submitted to a course of private tuition in Vienna by Schoenberg ’ s pupil Anton Webern ( with whom he often disagreed on a personal and political level ).

** English composer Benjamin Britten ’ s chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.

Puccini's son Tonio objected, and eventually Franco Alfano was chosen to flesh out the sketches after Vincenzo Tommasini ( who had completed Boito's Nerone after the composer ’ s death ) and Pietro Mascagni were rejected.

Finally, and most intriguingly, it has been argued that a reference to ‘ the bird of loudest lay ’ in Shakespeare's mysterious allegorical poem The Phoenix and the Turtle may be to the composer.

The first musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM ’ s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, Till the Clouds Roll By.

With Debussy ’ s death, Ravel became perceived popularly as the main composer of French classical music.

But there ’ s nothing dated about this perfect storm of talent, from Hitchcock and Grant to writer Ernest Lehman ( Sweet Smell of Success ), co-stars James Mason and Eva Marie Saint, composer Bernard Herrmann and even designer Saul Bass, whose opening-credits sequence still manages to send a shiver down the spine.

Bert Berns, Them ’ s producer and composer of their 1965 hit, " Here Comes the Night ", persuaded Morrison to return to New York to record solo for his new label, Bang Records.

Sting ’ s musical interpretation of this English Renaissance composer and his cooperation with Edin Karamazov brought him significant recognition in classical music circles.

This is popular lullaby, and was composed ( lyrics and music ) by Sigurd Barrett ( born 1967 ), pianist, composer and host of a Children ’ s TV programme in Denmark, and by fellow musician Steen Nikolaj Hansen.

While the absence of plentiful primary sources makes it hard for us to map out Isaac ’ s life, piecing together the sources we do have along with the works he wrote give us a good picture of just how popular this Franco-Flemish composer was in his time.

* Inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky ’ s evening-long concert drama August 4, 1964, which was based on the tragic events of that date 44 years ago: the discovery in Mississippi of the bodies of three recently murdered young civil rights workers and a spurious “ attack ” on two American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

There he studied music with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de Macque who was organist of the Santa Casa dell ’ Annunziata and maestro di cappella to the Spanish viceroy.

In other words, should the last sentence not be clear, this compositional gesture in the recognition of the even indistinct sound, recognizing the found object as the first condition of an emotional attitude, was the inevitable introduction of the composer ’ s present in real time and thus as an autobiographer.

The Morgan State University Choir was led for more than three decades by the late Dr. Nathan Carter, celebrated conductor, composer, and arranger, is one of the nation ’ s most prestigious university choral ensembles.

Nathaniel Ramsay / Key-Ramsey House Site ( CE-1300 ): Originally, the home of Francis Key, birthplace of John Ross Key and Father of Francis Scott Key composer of the “ Star Spangled Banner .” This structure was indicated in Benjamin Latrobe ’ s 1813 sketch of Charlestown, located where the Charlestown Parsonage for St. John ’ s Methodist Church stands today.

Consequently, opus numbers are not usually in chronological order, unpublished compositions usually had no opus number, and numeration gaps and sequential duplications occurred when publishers issued contemporaneous editions of a composer ’ s works, as in the sets of string quartets by Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ); Haydn's Op.

The latter demonstrates Finzi ’ s admiration for Johann Sebastian Bach as well as the Swiss American Jewish composer Ernest Bloch.

So long as the separate art of music had a real organic life-need in it there was nowhere to be found a Jewish composer .... Only when a body ’ s inner death is manifest, do outside elements win the power of lodgement in it — yet merely to destroy it.

One of Loewe's strengths as a composer were his " imaginative and, at times, daring " accompaniments, which were often atmospheric and exploited the piano ’ s sonorous and tonal potential.

This process, which could take months, would start with Chaplin describing to the composer ( s ) exactly what he wanted and singing or playing a tune he had come up with on the piano.

These tunes were then developed further in a close collaboration between the composer ( s ) and Chaplin.

Based on a play by Victor Hugo ( Le roi s ' amuse ), the libretto had to undergo substantial revisions in order to satisfy the epoch's censorship, and the composer was on the verge of giving it all up a number of times.

* Song of the Year is awarded to the writer ( s )/ composer ( s ) of a single song.

Despite both the Record of the Year award and Song of the Year being awarded for a single or for one track from an album, this award goes only to the composer ( s ) of the song whereas the Record of the Year award goes to the performer and production team of the song.

By convention, a soundtrack record can contain all kinds of music including music " inspired by " but not actually appearing in the movie ; the score contains only music by the original film's composer ( s ).

For example, a C major chord is made up of the notes C, E, and G. If the notes are held out the entire duration of a measure, the composer or orchestrator will have to decide what instrument ( s ) play this chord and in what register.

* Washington D. C .' s Different Drummers ( DCDD ) and the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington ( LGCW ) commissioned Quilt Panels from composer Robert Maggio in 2001.

", referring to Jaeger and Elgar ´ s wife Alice, " two great influences on the life and art of the composer ", as Elgar wrote in 1927.

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

Nico ( born Christa Päffgen ; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988 ) was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s.

He was survived by his second wife, Barbara ( the former wife of Hersey's colleague at The New Yorker, artist Charles Addams, and the model for Morticia Addams ), Hersey's five children, one of whom is the composer and musician Baird Hersey, and six grandchildren.

Like his contemporary Palestrina, the Flemish composer Jacobus de Kerle ( 1531 / 32 – 1591 ) was also credited with giving a model of composition for the Council of Trent.

The modern wind ensemble was established by Frederick Fennell at Eastman School of Music as the Eastman Wind Ensemble in 1952 after the model of the orchestra: a pool of players from which a composer can select in order to create different sonorities.

On December 24, 1955, Cullen married former dancer and model Ann Roemheld Macomber, daughter of composer Heinz Roemheld ; this marriage would last until his death.

2, in the same key, was more than an inspiration to Dvořák ; it became a model for the younger composer: the first and final movements of both works have the same scoring, tempo, meter, and key …” He points out similarities in the primary themes of the first and fourth movements, as well as structural and orchestration similarities.

By late in his career he was easily the most influential madrigal composer in Europe, and his earlier madrigals became the model for the new school of madrigal composition in England.

Kevin Scott Richardson ( born October 3, 1971 ) is an American singer, model, actor, composer, and member of the Backstreet Boys.

The model for the logo was Florida State music faculty member Thomas Wright, composer of the Florida State University Fight Song and Victory Song.

* Dann Glenn ( solo bassist / composer ) has a signature model fretless bass by Hotwire Basses, and also plays Fender Jazz and LightWave fretless basses.

While little is known of the first two decades of his life, he probably knew or studied with Johannes Regis, and he may have studied with Ockeghem ; in addition it is likely he knew Dufay at the Burgundian court of Charles the Bold, since so much of his music follows in the model of the older composer.

King, radio personalities Roger Barkley and Al Lohman, composer Ira Newborn, director Russ Meyer, model Corinne Wahl, comedian Andrew Dice Clay, Firesign Theater member Phil Proctor and independent film actor Paul Bartel.

However, Tilmouth and Sherr comment that although these works exhibit " the kind of interaction of composer and model that was characteristic of 16th-century parody ", they nevertheless employ " a stylistic dichotomy far removed from it ".

* Estelle Asmodelle — model, music composer and scientist, grew up in Berrima and left at age 16.

Colbran and Rossini separated in 1837 as the composer began a serious relationship with the artists ' model Olympe Pélissier in Paris.